Dennis Ritchie, Creator of UNIX and C, Dead at 70

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

Wikipedia has his death listed as December 9th, with attribution to an
announcement made by Rob Pike via Google +.

I trust Rob to have verified it.

Sorrow can not describe the feeling I have now.

md

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 21:15 -0400, Randy Edwards wrote:
> OS News is reporting this as unconfirmed: 
> <http://www.osnews.com/story/25232/Dennis_Ritchie_Creator_of_UNIX_and_C_Dead_at_70/>.
> 
> 

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